Why does China control everything inside its borders? For over a century, foreign powers like Britain, Japan, America, humiliated China. Colonized it, starved it, bombed it. So, when the Communist Party took power, they made one promise, never again. And they meant it. The Chinese government doesn't just run a country, it runs an operating system where it decides what people read, watch, search, and even think about its own history. They built their own version for every app [music] and every platform. Fully monitored and controlled. Type Tiananmen Square massacre into a Chinese search engine and you'll see nothing. Completely wiped from history. 700 million cameras watch their streets. Your face is scanned every corner. [music] Say the wrong thing about the government and you're vanished. China pulled 800 million people out of poverty in 40 years. That's more than the entire population of Europe. Connected the country with the fastest rail network on the planet. Even Western corporations like Apple, Google, Nike, Hollywood bent their own values to access [music] Chinese money. The world didn't just watch this system get built, it funded it. And that is the most unsettling political truth [music] of the 21st century.
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